Yes, working 15 hours a day for an extended period of time is
probably unrealistic…. Many people in demanding professions (startups,
management consulting, finance, academia) work 10.5 hours a day
long-term.
Genuine lol at anyone who thinks that finance/management consulting
people putting in 80+ hour weeks are actually working productively for
that amount of time. Like yeah there’s probably some tiny fraction of
the population with brains that are actually able to be productive for
10.5 hours/day long-term but that’s not what’s happening in those
industries, entry-level analysts are in the office all day because of a
combo of unpredictable work requirements and dumb tradition
And don't forget the classic combo of tight, immovable deadlines and clients who deliver data late but demand absolute perfection (edit:) at bargain-bin prices.
Easy to work those hours, just go do lunch with your clients, breakfast ith your coworkers and sinner with any other stakeholders ;). (I saw a clickbait article a while back shouting about how millenials had killed the 2 hour long working dinner/lunch or something).
(Im only half joking btw, doing real work in the morning and evening and doing outreach work in the afternoon certainly makes it possible to work insane hours, but that means hou are doing politics ( or entertainment).
I've got an acquaintance who's an investment manager. Most of his job seems to be wining and dining rich assholes. The notion that people in finance do any actual hard work is a fucking joke
i have about 250 tabs, some of which i've lovingly ported from laptop to laptop over the last 4 years, and i won't tolerate any outrageous comments suggesting this makes me in any way productive
Personally, I usually want a fresh browser every new session. When I'm actually doing something productive, say cross-reference or search for an article, I doubt that I exceed seven tabs. More than twenty to me is torture, triggering my internal neat-freak.
nsfw; why are they so obsessed with productivity? why? why don't they make time for idk being human? is this a side effect of viewing people as pure pleasure maximizers?
Being human is not optimal. Optimality is the telos of existence. [Friendship](https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Fanfic/FriendshipIsOptimal), however, may be optimal in some cases.
Because everybody else in tech/rationalism seems to do it. (They dont obv, but that is observer bias for ya).
Just in rationalism, look at how prolific Yud, scott, and Gwern are for example. Only one of them does this next to a full time job however.
just want to say I've been so proud of myself for tabs lately, only like half a dozen open and one of them's just a die roller with a handy 3d6-six-times button.
I was shocked to learn a few months ago that it’s considered normal for people to leave their computers on when they’re not home/sleeping. The idea of “keeping tabs open” beyond my current “being awake” period was something that never even occurred to me.
I grew up in an evangelical household so I still close out tabs when my roommates or long-term partners walk up behind me at a computer from force of habit.
Yeah, for when it fails (or when you just want to back up a certain part of your open tabs so you can close them all (you can also drag them all inside a bookmarks folder). Some support having specific sessions, which is pretty useful) there are special addons.
To trigger the build in protection in Firefox, you need to crash the browser, else you run a risk at it failing.
Genuine lol at anyone who thinks that finance/management consulting people putting in 80+ hour weeks are actually working productively for that amount of time. Like yeah there’s probably some tiny fraction of the population with brains that are actually able to be productive for 10.5 hours/day long-term but that’s not what’s happening in those industries, entry-level analysts are in the office all day because of a combo of unpredictable work requirements and dumb tradition
Once again, the rationalist relaxing at home.
he works so hard and yet he is not a billionaire